[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Dublin City.

  • Dublin (Ireland). City Council
Date:
1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Dublin City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table 8. Showing the Number of Diarrhoea and Enteritis Admissions, the Number of Deaths and the Case Mortality for the Years 1941-1954. Year 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 Total Number of Cases Admitted Number Died Case Mortality 115 70 60-87 70 42 60-00 70 43 61-42 45 9 20-00 52 16 30-77 61 18 29-50 93 27 29-03 50 7 14-00 32 14 43 • 75 12 — — 49 3 6-12 53 1 1-88 78 4 5-12 30 2 6 • 66 810 256 31-60 I i Meningitis. Thirty cases of meningitis were treated during the year and were classified as follows :— Type Number Deaths Case Mortality Tuberculous 10 1 10-00 Meningococcal... 8 3 37 • 50 Pneumococcal ... 2 — — Purulent* 10 1 10-00 * No organism isolated. The only death in the Tuberculous cases occurred in a girl twelve years old, admitted in the last stages of the disease. She died on the fourth day after admission. Of the three deaths in the Meningococcal